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Global cooperation delivered environmental gains in 2025: UNEP report

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) released its 2025 Annual Report today, highlighting progress made last year on key environmental challenges through international cooperation despite ongoing global geopolitical tensions.

16 Feb 2026

UNEP launches US$100 million programme to accelerate climate, nature action

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), together with the Development Bank of Latin …

Resumed fifth session of negotiations on a global plastic pollution treaty opens in Geneva

The second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding …

What is the international agreement to protect the high seas and why is it important?

This week, delegates from around the world will gather in New York City to discuss what has been …

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24 February 2025

GAIA calls for greater accountability, inclusiveness, transparency in Plastics Treaty Process

16 February 2025

How the pact to protect the ozone layer is helping counter climate change

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A regional agreement aims to save a tropical paradise in trouble

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G20 recommendations: advancing a nature-positive economy and just transition

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G20 recommendations: advancing a nature-positive economy and just transition

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As landscapes heal, Nepal’s most iconic animals stage a comeback

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A window of opportunity for climate change and biodiversity

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Asean, UNDP launch marine conservation project

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